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He is horrified by his old age, but he does not rage; his chIef worry when he goes through state papers is that his memory is weak; it is hard lines to lose the mastery of detail that is responsible, in a man of his character, for the suc- cess of his long reign One is left aston- ished by the sight of a Son of Heaven who for the first time-as far as we know-is fascinated by himself àS a man. -V. S. PRITCHET'I ß"-IEFL Y NOTED FICT ION , THE PAPERHANGER, by Suzanne Prou, translated frOlll the French by Adrienne Foulke (Harper & Row). In this very lush, poetic, and elusive book, a French bureaucrat, confined to his sitting rOOlll by an unnamed "illness," recalls (or dreams about) certain crucial moments in his life The scenes are repeated over and over, but through different prisITIs. 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